HIST3025 Hitler and the National Socialist Ideology Lecture 5: Language and Politics 28 February 2013.

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HIST3025 Hitler and the National Socialist Ideology Lecture 5: Language and Politics 28 February 2013

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‘Spirit of 1914’ Nationalist myths of unity (Aug 1914) → German men of all classes march together to defend common home First Battle of Ypres → ‘Langemarck’ myth → Young German regiments allegedly sing Deutschland, Deutschland über alles when charging = Patriotic fervor & its subsequent mythologization reflected in Mein Kampf

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A Fascist political style  ‘Fight of man against man’ in war: Ennobling qualities in itself Cleansing effect on decadent & rotten national life → Violence + glorification of violence = Revolutionary new form of activism Hitler more than German nationalist ↓  Hitler with new, specifically fascist mentality

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[My] position is that there is no use in hanging petty thieves in order to let big ones go free; but that some day a German national court must judge and execute some ten thousand of the organizing and hence responsible criminals of the November betrayal and everything that goes with it. (A. Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 496)